Question

My current query:

SELECT *
FROM `reported_users`
GROUP BY `reported_user`
ORDER BY ???

I have a reported_users table. When users on my site report another user for breaking the rules the reported user is inserted as a row in this table. So the same user can have multiple rows in the table. To make sure I get each user only once I am using GROUP BY on the reported_user field. But how can I ORDER BY users who were reported the most to least. So if the table looks like this:

reported_user | reporter
---------------------------
Joe           | Bob
Jake          | Nady
Lisa          | Tim
Joe           | Jim
Joe           | Foo
Lisa          | Bar

the query should return:

Joe (3)
Lisa (2)
Jake (1)

I would also like to return how many times each user was reported. How can this be done?

Answer 1

SELECT reported_user, count(*)
FROM reported_users
GROUP BY reported_user
ORDER BY count(*) desc